Star Trek Movie Review.

Title: Star Trek.
Gene: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Futuristic, Remake.
Year Released: 2009.
Starring: Chris Pine {James T. Kirk}, Simon Pegg {Montgomery Scott}, Zachary Quinto {Spock}, Zoë` Saldana {Nyota Uhura}, Bruce Greenwood {Captain Christopher Pike}, Anton Yelchin {Pavel Chekov}, Winona Ryder {Spock’s mother}, John Cho {Hikaru Sulu}, Ben Cross {Serak, Spock’s father}, Eric Bana {Nero}, Karl Urban {Leonard McCoy} and Leonard Nimoy {Spock Prime}.
Director: J.J. Abrams.
Plot: James T. Kirk grew up without ever knowing his father who died the day he was born and because of that he became known as the local bad-boy with a genius IQ. Spock has a human mother and a Vulcan father and has therefore been conflicted within over what he wants to be upon graduation. These two both end up at the Star Fleet Federation academy where Kirk passes Spock’s impassable test by cheating and the two get off to a rocky start in what will later be a lasting friendship. When the Romulan warlord Nero reappears on the scene heading toward Vulcan, the cadets are rushes off into space to answer the planet’s distress call but arrive too late to do more than watch as the planet is turned into a black hole before their eyes.
Pike, a hostage of the “troubled Romulan” leaves his brand new ship the U.S.S. Enterprise in Spock’s command and he, being overwhelmed by the death of his mother and home-planet, kicks Kirk off the ship onto a frozen nearby planet where Kirk gets the shock of his life in meeting Spock; but not the Spock he’s use to, this Spock is from the future and he clears things up by explaining that Nero also is from the future where his planet was destroyed by a supernova before a black hole could be created inside it to save the planet. Getting sucked through the black hole Nero arrived first and promptly altered Kirk’s history dramatically by killing his father and twenty-five years later Spock arrived.
With this new knowledge in mind and a new friend in Scottie, Kirk beams back aboard the Enterprise and in dramatic fashion gets control of it from Spock who cools off then joins him in his daring plan to get the Red Matter {the stuff that creates the black holes} and Captain Pike from Nero’s ship which they then blow up with said Red Matter and return triumphantly to Earth.
Likes/Dislikes: There is quite a bit of cussing, mostly the a** word and a few damns but they’re also mostly said under the character’s breath so are hard to catch if you’re not really paying attention. There is a bloody bar fight toward the beginning in which Kirk gets pretty beat up {he gets beat up quite a bit throughout the movie actually}, Pike is tortured for information by having a bug dropped down his throat and there is of course a bedroom scene in which Kirk is involved but is kicked out of the room before it goes beyond kissing, thankfully. The dialogue and overall plot was very well written and there were several scenes where my family and I burst out laughing, even Dad laughed and that is a very good sign that this is a good movie. The movie is one hundred twenty-six minutes long and was based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roodenberry.
Rating: PG-13 and I believe I agree with this rating.
Date Report Written: April 22, 2010.